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JOHN CHARLES FREPPON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 12, 1947 – December 11, 1967
Service recordJohn Charles Freppon, of Silver Grove, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 80
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Railway Section Foreman (57B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 157 QM CO 1 LOG CMD
- Born
- April 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Silver Grove, Kentucky (Campbell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 80
- JERRY W BRANNOCKPrivate First Class · December 11, 1967
- WILLIAM DEWITT DAVISStaff Sergeant · December 11, 1967
- HOWARD JACOB DEWAALSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- TIMOTHY MORGAN DICKCorporal · December 11, 1967
From Silver Grove
- ROBERT J BLAUT JRSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.